Acton Reduce and Recycle Hub: Join to Create a Sustainable Future

Join volunteer organisations at Acton Market Reduce and Recycle hub to create a sustainable future for everyone by encouraging joining in to reuse and recycle your old items. On Saturday 7 September from 10 am to 3 pm come along and learn how to recycle more and waste less.

The Acton Market Reduce and Recycle hub recently featured on BBC London.

Reduce and Recycle hub enable you to recycle, repair and reuse. Below is what is available:

RECYCLE:

Bring along your old and unloved:

• Clothing, Shoes and Accessories for donation to TRAID www.traid.org.uk/wlwa (10am – 2pm)
• Small electrical appliances (10am – 2pm). These must be small –small enough to fit in a shopping bag to TRAID, see details www.traid.org.uk
• Recycling and waste advice from Juliet at Recycle Challenge from ActforEaling
• Ealing Waste Team collecting for Terracycle:
  • Pringle Tubes with the metal bases only
  • Biscuits and Snacks wrappers: All brands of plastic biscuit wrappers, all brands of plastic cake wrappers and all brands of plastic cracker wrappers ( Not included is recycle paper or foil wrappers)
  • Coffee bean and ground coffee pouches and sachets: Not included is coffee capsules, coffee grounds) Cardboard packaging can be recycled in Ealing doorstep collection.
  • Bulk bags of tea bags and loose leaf tea packs: Cardboard packaging can be recycled in Ealing doorstep collection and teabags in food waste doorstep collection. Not included is individual tea bag sachets.
  • Plastic toothbrushes and electric toothbrush heads: Plus electric flosser nozzles, flossing sticks and interdental brushes and dental floss containers. (Not collecting battery or electric toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss)

REPAIR:

• Fix your Clothes: Ealing Repair Café will be there to teach you how to mend your clothes. Also have some upcycling clothes projects www.ealingrepaircafe.org
• Get your Bikes checked with ReActon and Dr Bike (2 pm-5 pm) 
• Sharpen your Garden and Kitchen tools: Contact RenewSharpening on 07860 518576 and speak to Dave. Sadly Dave wont be at the hub, but will be able to collect items to be sharpened.
• Fix your watch straps and replace your batteries with our Trader TJ Singh.

REUSE:

• Buy an upcycled bike: ReActon will be selling a fantastic selection of high-quality pre-loved bikes for both adults and kids. It’s a great opportunity to find the perfect ride for you and your family. Offering a selection of high-quality refurbished bikes including adults, youth and kids bikes. All the bikes come with a three month warranty. ReActon also offers Free Tyre Checks and chain checks. 
• Discounted bike services are also available from ReActon. You pay for only for the parts needed. No labour to pay for, you simple pay for parts. Get your bike running smoothly again for less than half of what you’d usually pay!
• Book Swap – Bring books or take a books to keep them in use for longer, with Churchfield Community Association
• Buy pre-loved or returns bargain from the MarketW3 traders who sell preloved, returns and seconds from the high street at a reduced price. Choose from sportswear, womenswear and menswear.

Plus: Tasty local foodie stalls will be onsite so to sample the flavours of Ghana, India and Lebanon.

Acton Recycling Activities and Special Guests

Also at the hub will be other community groups including:

1. Cultivate London will be on site with seeds and plants to take away. They also will share information about their Acton Green composting project and how to volunteer at their growing sites.
2. Ealing Friends of the Earth: Updating us on the local issues and campaigns around air pollution, climate change, nature and biodiversity.

So, come along to Reduce and Recycle hub and join the growing community of people who are helping Acton reduce, reuse and recycle more. For more information and links to all the great organisations involved in Reduce and Recycle hub.

Join the Recycling Revolution at the Acton hub

If your organisation, community group or you as a trader are interested in getting a stall please email Mary Horesh at mary.horesh@actionwestlondon.org.uk. We also need volunteers to help run some of the activities and promote the hub. For more information, visit Acton Reduce and Recycle hub or contact Mary Horesh, the Reduce and Recycle hub manager.

Reduce and Recycle Hub successes

At the Reduce and Recycle hub see our Reduce and Recycle Hub 2023 review and so far we have achieved:

• 599kg of unwanted clothes and shoes saved from landfill by Traid, which reduced carbon emissions (CO2) by 8.40 tonnes and water savings of 711m3.
• 163 kgs of small electrical items collected and recycled.

The Reduce and Recycle hub was set up by Action West London who won a Lottery grant from their Climate Action Fund in 2021.  In 2024, Ealing Council, extended the funding of the hubs to early 2025.

So join in and help Acton to reduce their waste and recycle more for a sustainable future.

ActForEaling

If you cant make the hub, take look at ActforEaling 10 steps for a greener Ealing. To keep to up to date subscribe to ActForEaling email newsletter for emails on what is going on around Ealing to make a sustainable future.